Word: lend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S phrase (which conformed to impartial Capitol opinion) was prompted 1) by Senator Gillette's voting record (straight down the isolationist line against Lend-Lease, revision of the Neutrality Act, etc.), and 2) by the need to distinguish him from such impassioned new-line Democrats as Claude Pepper and Joe Guffey. Never to be confused with such clamorous isolationists as Ham Fish, Iowa's well-liked, forthright Senator Gillette,"apparently not too old-line to change, was appointed to the Senate Committee which last year wrote the Connally Resolution on postwar world cooperation...
...journeyed to Russia to "see Mr. Stalin and learn the weaknesses there must be in this system." Coarse, shrewd, unlettered, but basically goodhearted, Mr. Perkins is not a bad fellow. He visits a collective farm, tours the front, where he eats his own sausage, sent to Russia under Lend-Lease. He and the Russians understand one another. But "Mr. Hemp," the U.S. correspondent accompanying Perkins, is a slippery, prying, anti-Soviet...
...Extended Lend-Lease and reciprocal trade, and the President's war powers...
...terms of Phase II of Lend-Lease were received in London with cheers, tempered with the sober realization that the British bankroll is no longer fat enough to purchase in the open market all the raw materials she will need. By combing the lining of her moneybags Britain might be able to scrape together enough money to pay cash for the first few consignments of raw materials her factories must have...
...Earl of Halifax, Britain's gaunt, impenetrably gentlemanly Ambassador to the U.S., deftly parried a U.S. housewives' rumor that Britain has used Lend-Lease lipstick to prettify English girls for lonely G.I.s. Said Halifax: "Lipstick [is] the easiest and quickest way to mark on a war casualty's clothes what and where his wounds...